If you honestly think that the use of Comic Sans lessens the impact of what is being communicated, YOU are what's wrong with this planet. "Style over substance" is a bad thing, not a farking motto for life (or business...I'm looking at you, Apple). A retarded monkey wallowing in its own filth because it isn't smart enough to not shiat everywhere would look at you and think, "Holy crap, what a moron." Trig Palin is going to be more of a contributor to society than you ever will be. Every last one of you should be dropped on an uncharted island somewhere so that you can biatch at each other about a farking font until you starve to death because you're incapable of taking care of yourselves.

Yes, yes, I know. You've taken multiple design courses and, by golly, you know what you're talking about when you wax on about the evils of a farking font. The problem is, in the grand scheme of things Design Students rank just below Marketing people and just above Child Molesters. No one but you and your douche-canoe friends gives a flying fark about fonts. NO ONE.

If you can't see content for presentation, it sounds like you're a very weak minded person.

I'm not questioning the research. I've always taken that kind of research and knowledge to be a means to overcome the tendency. We had advertising courses in high school that illustrated how ads are meant to capture your attention and what have you, and the purpose wasn't so we'd like ads, be better at making ads, it was so we'd be aware, and able to mitigate, the effect.

If you see a commercial for something that gets you excited, and you don't immediately stop and start asking questions such as, is this real? How could this be? What limitations could exist that would make the product I buy deviate from how it was just presented to me in a commercial (e.g artificial screen rendering)... then you're an idiot.

Likewise, if you can't appreciate the information about the Higgs Boson because of the font, you're an idiot.

It sounds like we don't need more design being taught in school. It's more critical thinking. Learning design just perpetuates it by treating it as acceptable behaviour. As an intelligent, domesticated primate, you need to be able to discern meaning from written word and comprehend it based on content alone.

Expolaris:I can't blame them, they are engineers, and thought like engineers. My brother (an engineer) didn't really see a problem with the typeface, he was more interested in the data.

They are actually physicists, and presumably they think like physicists. I am an engineer and I was also more interested in the data that the typeface but claiming that engineers are not interested in aesthetics shows the ignorance you have about your brothers profession. Sure we care less about aesthetics then say safety and functionality but they are never completely off of the table.

None of us care. We could give two shiats what font someone or something uses. If something is in a font that is not "appropriate", we may barely register this fact in the back of our mind somewhere, perhaps be a bit turned off, but really it doesn't matter in the slightest.

Here's what I'm really trying to say: YOU HAVE A DISEASE.

They're shallow people who put style over substance. One of the greatest scientific discoveries in history and they can't get past the font. Pathetic.

None of us care. We could give two shiats what font someone or something uses. If something is in a font that is not "appropriate", we may barely register this fact in the back of our mind somewhere, perhaps be a bit turned off, but really it doesn't matter in the slightest.